Police: Woman's dog bites man who choked her after asking to use phone

EVANSVILLE - A woman was cut on her head during a struggle with a man who knocked on her door and asked to use a telephone early Wednesday afternoon, according to an Evansville Police Department report.

The victim, a 50-year-old woman living in the 300 block of North Linwood Avenue, told police a man knocked on her door about 12:30 p.m. and asked to use the phone. She said that when she turned to get her phone he put his white T-shirt around her neck and began choking her, according to police.

The woman said she yelled for her dog and the dog bit the man on the leg. He then tried to grab a shopping bag from CVS before leaving her house. She told police that she watched the man leave the house and that she would be able to identify him.

Although she was cut on her head and was examined by an ambulance crew, the woman refused treatment, police said.